Two girls with custom XOs
Customized Sugar desktop
The Paraguay deployment has been growing quickly, with help from OLPC world-traveller Bernie Innocenti. Students there are trying out the latest build of Sugar (0.84), with its dual-desktop (Gnome and Sugar). They are the first school to test out recent efforts to backport that release to the XO-1. Their motivation to install the update? They absolutely love the GNOME desktop backgrounds and screensavers.
They also are expert at customizing their XOs, with stickers, screennames that span many lines to make ascii art, and iconic backgrounds (using the freeform icon layout). Bernie also reports on the programs they use most, and on how they are learning to modify the software on their machines.
For regular updates from the field, and lessons in English and Spanish computer slang, follow along on his travelog.
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I just interviewed Bernie Innocenti to get some updates from OLPC in Paraguay: http://stop.zona-m.net/education/olpc-paraguay-educates-both-little-kids-and-teenagers
HTH,
Marco
There are plenty of people still alive who can inspire those to give, Lennon is a great guy but it just looks stupid to use his image and have his lips not even match up with what he’s ‘saying’.
Are any of these laptops going to kids in this country ?